When the feared “Antinomian” is Lawful. A Puritan Observation

“Although some writers, such as Thomas Edwards, Samuel Rutherford and Richard Baxter, wrote violently against the Antinomians, it is nevertheless only fair to say that most of the extravagances of behavior, which they so rightly denounced, made their appearance not in England, but in New England. Robert Traill found the Antinomians strict in their church discipline and virtuous in their personal conduct and, having “Both opportunity and inclination to inquire”, he says, “For all the noise of Antinomianism, I must declare, that I do not know…… any one Antinomian minister of Christian in London, who is really such as thei reproachers paint them out, or such as Luther and Calvin wrote against.” The Law of Grace pg 24 by Ernest F. Kevan

I post this as a simple observation of how Caricatures how always existed. The dreaded                   whoever are rarely as described.